health and the people Flashcards
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what was the four humors theory
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all humors had to be in balance or you could fall ill, phlegm, blood, black bile and yellow bile
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why where Islamic doctors so important
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medical knowledge that was lost after the fall of the roman empire was kept in circulation by Islamic doctors. people like ibn zuhr mad new discoveries like describing the parasite that caused scabies and ibn al-nafis who discovered heart flows from one side of the heart via the lungs proving galens theory wrong
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